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Teaching Sylvia Plath

Yesterday, I visited Smith College for a couple of reasons. One was to look at Sylvia Plath's copy of The Complete Plays and Poems of Shakespeare: A New Text (Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1942.). The other reason was to bore to death, I mean, talk about my website (and blog and Twitter) on Sylvia Plath to a group of students taking part in a documentary editing course taught by the estimable Karen V. Kukil. Barbara Blumenthal took these pictures of the students before they each, in turn, fell asleep. Like dominoes. I audited this very course last year and it was a ton of fun.




PS: I do not believe any of the students actually fell asleep! They were all kind, attentive, and very gracious to listen to me.
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  1. Anonymous10 January, 2013 09:37

    what a shame falling asleep at such an event! and taught by such a great woman.. If i only could have been there! it's really true the saying "appreciate what you have".

    what a sadness to live in a country where they even dont know who Sylvia Plath is and when u ask for infos or a book abt/of her,they say, not even "who" but "what"?. ohhcomeonn!
    :(

    thank u Peter for letting me live vicariously through all that u post.

    xxx Alessandra

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  2. Julia Gordon-Bramer11 January, 2013 10:06

    The students all look fairly upright in your pictures. ;-)

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  3. Peter K Steinberg11 January, 2013 10:07

    But they would, like Plath, "rather be horizontal".

    pks

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  4. Carl Rollyson12 January, 2013 08:28

    I find in my classes that almost as many students recognize the name of Sylvia Plath as the name of Marilyn Monroe.

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